[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#806076: mc: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (No such file or directory)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:mc
Version: 3:4.8.13-3
User: sanvila at debian.org
Usertags: binary-indep
Severity: important

Dear maintainer:

I tried to build this package with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
(i.e. only architecture-independent packages), and it failed:

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 fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep
dh binary-indep --parallel --with autoreconf
   dh_testroot -i -O--parallel
   dh_prep -i -O--parallel
   debian/rules override_dh_auto_install
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
dh_auto_install --max-parallel=1
	make -j1 install DESTDIR=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no
make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
Making install in intl
make[3]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/intl'
if { test "mc" = "gettext-runtime" || test "mc" = "gettext-tools"; } \
   && test 'no' = yes; then \
  /bin/sh ../config/mkinstalldirs /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/include; \
  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libintl.h /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/include/libintl.h; \
  /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=install \
    /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libintl.a /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libintl.a; \
  if test "@RELOCATABLE@" = yes; then \
    dependencies=`sed -n -e 's,^dependency_libs=\(.*\),\1,p' < /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libintl.la | sed -e "s,^',," -e "s,'\$,,"`; \
    if test -n "$dependencies"; then \
      rm -f /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libintl.la; \
    fi; \

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   dh_link -i -O--parallel
   dh_strip_nondeterminism -i -O--parallel
   dh_compress -i -O--parallel
   debian/rules override_dh_fixperms
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
chmod 755 debian/mc/etc/mc/*.rc
chmod: cannot access 'debian/mc/etc/mc/*.rc': No such file or directory
debian/rules:54: recipe for target 'override_dh_fixperms' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_fixperms] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
debian/rules:12: recipe for target 'binary-indep' failed
make: *** [binary-indep] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep gave error exit status 2
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Sorry not to have a fix, as I am reporting many bugs similar to
this one, but I can give some general hints:

* If all the arch-independent packages are dummy transitional packages
released with jessie, the easy fix is to drop them now.
 
* If not, debian/rules should be modified so that the binary-indep
target works in all cases, even when binary-arch is not used (this is
what the "Architecture: all" autobuilder does). For that:
    
* If you are using debhelper, you might want to use options -a and -i
for dh_* commands so that they do not act on packages they do not
have to act.

* Also, if you are using dh, the (independently) optional targets
override_dh_foo-arch and override_dh_foo-indep (for several values
of "foo") may be useful to write a debian/rules which behaves exactly
as desired.


After checking that both "dpkg-buildpackage -A" and "dpkg-buildpackage -B"
work properly, this package will be suitable to be uploaded in
source-only form if you wish (you might want to try it).

Thanks.